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another one of my ancestors fought with Gustav II in GERMANY during the thirty years war. He came back with a danish wife.
Another ancestor was 19 when he went off to fight in Pomerania in the Pomeranian war in the mid 1700s. At the time the Nobles were in charge through the estates general. And the Hats party was in charge. As I hinted at before there were two political parties, the Hats and the Caps. The Hats were financed by the French, they were militarists and protectionists, whilst the Caps were financed by Russia and they liked free trade instead. So basically when the Caps were in charge they wouldn't finance the military and then the Hats would come in and start a war with rotten uniforms and not enough muskets etc. And this continued until Gustav III took over. Anyway the Pomeranian war went badly and many soldiers died to disease (not enough supplies) but my ancestor survived. Before he had left, there was a 27 year old woman who lived in the same village. When he went to the war, the records say the woman went to work at some nobles mansion as a farmhand. When my ancestor came back the same year they moved to the same village and married, so it's likely they were lovebirds already before the war and had made promises to each other and so on.